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Commit e44081ef authored by Filipe Manana's avatar Filipe Manana
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Btrfs: fix unprotected list operations at btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups



We call btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups() in the critical section of a
transaction's commit, when no other tasks can join the transaction and
add more block groups to the transaction's list of dirty block groups,
so we not taking the dirty block groups spinlock when checking for the
list's emptyness, grabbing its first element or deleting elements from
it.

However there's a special and rare case where we can have a concurrent
task adding elements to this list. We trigger writeback for space
caches before at btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups() and in past iterations
of the loop at btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups(), this means that when
the writeback finishes (which happens asynchronously) it creates a
task for the endio free space work queue that executes
btrfs_finish_ordered_io() - this function is able to join the transaction,
through btrfs_join_transaction_nolock(), and update the free space cache's
inode item in the root tree, which can result in COWing nodes of this tree
and therefore allocation of a new block group can happen, which gets added
to the transaction's list of dirty block groups while the transaction
commit task is operating on it concurrently.

So fix this by taking the dirty block groups spinlock before doing
operations on the dirty block groups list at
btrfs_write_dirty_block_groups().

Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
parent 0376374a
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